The LG HS102 comes in to replace the HS101 and sits in the category of projectors sandwiched between those which are truly pocketable and fully-fledged but compact home devices. The result is a device that lends itself to portability whilst still being able to produce an image you could conceivably use to present your latest business pitch. But does the HS102 meet this remit?
Measuring only 154 x 117 x 50mm, it is slightly larger than it’s Acer rival, the K10, and is also an LED DLP arrangement but packs in a number of features not found on that device. Around the back is where the action is at, and you’ll find a range of connection options, including VGA for hooking up directly to most notebooks or PCs, whilst you also get a 3.5mm AV in, an audio out and a USB slot. A Kensington slot gives you the option to secure it.
You get a host of cables in the box, including a standard VGA cable and the AV cable (both about 2m long) you’d need to bring video and audio in, as well as a converter to allow you to take a component video source and convert it to VGA. These options should cater for most, meaning you’ll be able to connect up to a variety of video playback devices without too many problems, assuming they have RCA type outputs.
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LG HS102 Ultra Mobile Projector Review
Patriot Warp V3 256GB 2.5-Inch Solid State Disk Review
The Patriot Extreme Performance Warp Series has become very popular with enthusiasts looking to get the latest SSD technology in their system. Last October we reviewed the Warp V2 128GB drive and were very pleased with the speed and price of the drive. Later Cameron took a set of 4 Warp V2 drives to the next level by placing them in a RAID array and the results were stunning. At CeBIT Patriot had a new Warp product on display; the Warp Version 3. We got goose bumps after hearing the specs list.
The third generation Warp drive is currently only available in 256GB capacity and uses a simulated RAID 0 technology internally to increase write speeds. The claimed read speed on the Warp V3 was quoted to us as 240 MB/s, so we are expecting to see some great numbers out of this drive. Hopefully these high synthetic numbers relate to a dose of intense real world performance.
Before you get wrapped up in performance, you have to prepare yourself for the cost to play at this level. As of today the Patriot Warp V3 is only a 256GB part and as such comes at a high cost. Newegg has the new V3 in stock for 595.00 USD. The G.Skill TITAN we reviewed a few weeks ago is now down to 525 USD. Let’s see how the Warp V3 compares to the TITAN and all of our other selected 2.5 inch drives!
SSD Versus Enterprise SAS And SATA Disks Review
The introduction of “enterprise SATA” disks a few years ago was an excellent solution for all the companies craving storage space. With capacities up to 1TB per drive, “RAID Enabled” SATA disks offer huge amounts of magnetic disk space with decent reliability. Magnetic disks have been a very cheap solution if you want storage space, with prices at 20 cents per gigabyte (and falling). Performance is terrible, however, with seek times and latency adding a few milliseconds over faster and more expensive alternatives (i.e. SCSI). That’s 10,000 to 100,000 times slower than the speed of CPUs and RAM, where access times are expressed in nanoseconds. Even worse is the fact that seek times and latency have been improving at an incredibly slow pace. According to several studies[1], the time (seek time + latency) to get one block of random information has only improved by a factor 2.5 over the last decade while bandwidth has been improved a tenfold. Meanwhile, CPUs have become over 60 times faster! (As a quick point of reference, ten years ago state-of-the-art servers were running 450MHz Xeon processors with up to 2MB of L2 cache.)
The result of this lopsided performance improvements is a serious performance bottleneck, especially for OLTP databases and mail servers that are accessed randomly. A complex combination of application caches, RAID controller caches, hard disk caches, and RAID setups can partially hide the terrible performance shortcomings of the current hard disks, but note the word “partially”. Caches will not always contain the right data and it has taken a lot of research and software engineering to develop database management systems that produce many independent parallel I/O threads. Without a good I/O thread system you would not even be able to use RAID setups to increase disk performance.
BenQ M2400HD Review
The M2400HD is a 24in 16:9 monitor with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080. It uses active-matrix twisted-nematic, a type of LCD panel that – thanks to its fast response time – is better-associated with gaming monitors than video ones.
However, its shape, resolution and HDMI 1.3 input make it clear that HD movie watching is also within its sights.
The M2400HD has a stylish white case with a removable foot, and connections including HDMI, DVI, VGA, stereo audio, USB2 and headphone. VESA sockets on the back mean it can be wall-mounted or arm-mounted.
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Ultrasone HFI-680 Natural Surround Sound Headphone Review
Ultrasone, if you’ve never heard of them before, is that “other” German headphone company, but THE headphone company according to them. Of course, the other would be Sennheiser. They’ve been in business since 1991 and have several patented technologies. One of which is their S-Logic technology, which gives us this natural surround sound effect, and the other is their Ultra Low Emission (ULE) shielding that keeps your brain from frying by reducing radiation from the drivers by up to 98%.
Both of these technologies are featured in the Ultrasone HFI-680 Natural Surround Sound Headphones that we’re going to check out today.
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Sandisk ImageMate Multi-Card USB 2.0 Reader Review
With digital cameras and mobile phones using Flash memory there is still a need for an easy and quick way to transfer files from the device to your PC for storage and touch-up. SanDisk recently introduced the ImageMate Multi-Card USB 2.0 Reader/Writer and what makes it interesting is that it only only features one Flash card slot! Industry analyst iSuppli’s said that their fourth-quarter 2008 estimates show that 78 percent of all mobile phones with removable memory card slots feature the SD interface and projects 85 percent market penetration by 2012. CompactFlash memory has been a mainstay in the SLR (single-lens reflex) camera market, but in 2008 digital camera behemoth Canon chose to design the EOS 450D camera with SD flash-memory cards rather than the CompactFlash cards. The shift to SD Flash memory was made clear as the standard dominates both the camera and mobile phone markets. The good news about this shift is that the larger CompactFlash standard can be dropped from many readers as it isn’t in high demand any longer. This means that smaller USB 2.0 Reader/Writer devices can be developed and that is just what SanDisk did.
The SanDisk ImageMate Multi-Card USB 2.0 Reader/Writer that we will be looking at today is part number SDDR-199-A20 and was announced just three weeks ago. The reader is faster, smaller and sleeker than anything SanDisk has come out before and features upgraded software applications to boot. This Multi-Card reader is capable of up to 30MB/s read and 27 MB/s write data transfer rates when using a SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition SDHC card, so this is not the reader you grew up with!
SteelSeries Ikari Iron.Lady Laser Mouse Review
Denmark-based SteelSeries puts great time and research into designing top notch peripherals for computer users. Their line of gaming mice is no exception. For the Ikari line, development took 15 months and included the input from many professional gamers in regards to material, technology, grip, and other important gaming mice details. But does the ultra feminine Iron.Lady Ikari model live up to the SteelSeries’ promise of tough grade gaming equipment?
The packaging proudly displays the pink mouse, and we can hear it screaming “LOOK AT ME!” before we even let it out of the box. Opening our new toy, we found that this particular model comes with a pink mouse pad, a pink wristband, and the Ikari software. The mouse pad compliments the rodent by not being too thick, but stretching wide enough to accommodate the wide grip comfortably; however, we will say the pinks clash just a bit, with the mousepad being lighter than the mouse. Come on guys, you’ve got to match your pinks if you want to keep the ladies happy!
Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 - Q1 2009 Review
Throughout all of 2008, I made it my mission to test every high-performance CPU cooler that Benchmark Reviews received. The Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors did their part to separate the cream of the crop from our large collection of LGA775 coolers. In our previous Best CPU Cooler Performance article, Benchmark Reviews retired the LGA775 platform from its testing duties and made room for the up-and-coming LGA1366 socket. It didn’t take long to collect several CPU coolers designed for the Intel Core i7 CPU & X58 platform. This Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 - Q1 2009 article focuses on a wide selection of performance-cooling products for overclockers. It’s a mistake to think that any LGA775 cooler can do just as well with the new LGA1366/Core i7 platform; primarily because the size and location of processor cores has changed.
When it comes down to it, those consumers shopping for aftermarket cooling products only want one thing out of them: the very best cooling performance their money can buy. It makes perfect sense, too. Since so many products flood the market, it all comes down to price and performance. Based on this principal, Benchmark Reviews searches out the latest CPU coolers and tests them under real-world overclocked conditions. Want to know which cooling products stand-out? This quarterly update to our Best CPU Cooler Performance series will separate the good from the bad… but we also find those products that are truly exceptional and deserving of your hardware projects.
- Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 - Q1 2009
- Thermally Conductive Element Reference
- Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme
- Cooler Master V10 RR-B2P-UV10-GP
- CoolIT Domino ALC
- Prolimatech Megalems
- Spire TherMax II SP679S1-PCI
- Thermolab BARAM
- Titan FENRIR TTC-NK85TZ
- Xigmatek Dark Knight S1283V
- Xigmatek Thor’s Hammer S126384
- Zalman CNPS9900 LED
- TIM Application and Surface
- Testing Methodology
- Test Results: Stock Cooling Fan
- Test Results: High-Output Fan
- Overclocked Test Results
- CPU Cooler Final Thoughts
- Best CPU Cooler Conclusion
Sony Ericsson C905 8 Megapixel Camera Phone Coming To U.S. In H2 2009
Reuters is reporting that Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) is preparing to bring its camera phones to the U.S. market. Apparently, the Swedish-Japanese handset has high hopes for its flagship, 8 megapixel camera-equipped C905 Cybet-shot handset, which we’ve already heard is heading to Rogers Wireless in Canada.
The company’s head of product marketing for North America, Jon Mulder, said: “We’re going to be really focused on this device starting in the second quarter. We know that this device is going to be relevant to consumers in the second half.”
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AMA Aragon 900 Liquid Cooling System Review
You may have never heard of AMA Precision. Don’t sweat it, neither did we when we were contacted about reviewing their upcoming Aragon 900 Liquid Cooling unit. Looking over the AMA website, we found they offer power supplies and a variety of cooling options for enthusiasts. We even found some familiar Asus-branded air cooling units that we have reviewed in the past. It helped to know they were behind the development of some respectable air coolers and we were excited to see what they have to offer in the liquid cooling arena.
The Aragon 900 comes with a dominant visual appeal most enthusiasts will likely love. But sometimes looks can be deceiving (like that hottie across the way you later discovered had a creepy manly voice). Of course, our primary concern is with performance, and we already know what hardware the Aragon 900 is packing. Join us as we strap this water cooler to our test bench for the ride of its life.
